A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for political, military, ideological, economic and religious supremacy.

Some of the most significant clashes of arms in human history include the taking and retaking of Jerusalem and the collapse of the Crusader states; the fall of Constantinople; the sieges of Rhodes and Malta; the assault on Vienna and the 'high-water mark' of Ottoman advance into Europe; culminating in the Allied capture of Jerusalem in World War I, the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the dissolution of the sultanate and the caliphate, and the formation of modern Europe and the modern Middle East.

To explore this history is today’s guest, Simon Mayall, author of “The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate.”

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0:00.0	It's going to hear with another episode of the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:07.0	If you want to annoy a historian of the Middle East, and honestly who doesn't,
0:11.0	an easy way to do so is to summarize the entire history of relations between Christians and Muslims
0:16.0	and the Middle East this ongoing warfare.
0:18.4	The defeat of the Byzantine army at Yarmuk, Kailiff Umar's capture of Jerusalem, the Crusades, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in Europe.
0:25.6	They'll say that there's much more to this history and it overlooks centuries of cooperation,
0:30.5	mostly peaceful relations between different religions and the region.
0:33.8	But overlooking these clashes makes it impossible to understand the formation of the Middle East.
0:38.9	Emperors and sultans constantly referred to these battles as they legitimize the reason why they should
0:43.8	rule and why they had God's blessing, and many of the boundaries of nation states that exist today have to do
0:48.7	with these wars.
0:49.7	In today's episode, I'm speaking to Simon Mayall, author of House of War, the struggle between Christendom and the Kala Fate,
0:56.0	to look at the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the past 1300 years.
1:01.0	We look at many of the aforementioned- aforementioned battles, along with Mediterranean naval history,
1:05.6	the sieges, Verrodes, and Malta, jumping into the 20th century with the Allied capture of Jerusalem
1:10.4	in World War I, and the formation of modern Europe and the Middle East.
1:13.4	Hope you enjoy this discussion.
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